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Dinners.—The dinners are given at the following Centres:—
(a) Pine Street Municipal Centre.—Mothers and Toddlers.
(b) Leage Street Municipal Centre.—Toddlers.
(c) Home of Service, 36, King Square, E.C.1.—Mothers.
(d) Women's League of Service for Motherhood, 128, Pentonville
Road, N.1.—Mothers and Toddlers.
(c) and (d) are Voluntary Organisations with whom the Borough
Council has made arrangements for the supply of dinners recommended
at an agreed rate.
• During the year 1938, 4,692 grants were made, an average of
391 per month , 568 families received these grants.
The grants comprised 65,844 pints of milk, 3,688 lbs. of dried
milk, and 53,122 dinners.
Bacteriological Examination of Milk for Maternity and Child
Welfare Grants.
All milk supplied to Finsbury mothers and children under
orders issued by the Finsbury Borough Council is designated
"Pasteurised." This should ensure the supply of the safest milk
possible. In addition to the control which is exercised over all such
supplies, special attention is directed to ensure that the required
standards for this particular supply are maintained and 12 samples
were taken during the year for bacteriological examination.
Standards.—(1) Bacterial Count.
The legal maximum count allowable is 100,000 bacteria per
millilitre. The count, however, only gives an approximate index
of the bacterial purity and does not give any indication of the harmfulness
or otherwise of the organisms.
Lower counts than the legal maximum should generally prevail
although at times, especially in summer, higher counts may be found
without any gross contamination having taken place.
Of the samples examined—
6 showed counts of below 30,000 bacteria per m.l.
5 showed counts above 30,000 but below 100,000 per m.l.
1 showed counts above 100,000 but below 500,000 per m.l.
None showed counts above 500,000.